Yelstin Center hosts the 4th annual international conference on issues of parliamentarianism and constitutionalism

Dec 04 2014

RBTH

The annual international conference “Russia in peace: constitutionalism
– parliamentarianism – conservatism (responsibility for the future)”
will be held on 17 December
at the President Hotel in Moscow. The forum’s organizer is the
Foundation of the First President of Russia Boris Yeltsin (the Yeltsin
Center).

The forum is successively related to the historical cultural challenge
of interpreting the concept of “Understanding the 1990s” within a
modern, or more appropriately, relevant, framework. This challenge is a
part of the general theme of “Boris Yeltsin and the New Russia”, which
was the name of the first conference to be held by the Yelstin Center in
2011.

The following summits, in 2012 and 2013, concentrated the Yeltsin
Center’s interest and hands-on attention on the complicated process of
constitutional development in Russia at the turn of the 21st
century. The accent in 2012 was on whether or not the Russian
Constitution ought to be altered. And the fundamental problem in
Russia’s history was reflected in the name of the 2013 conference: “New
constitutional Russia: the quality of government – parliamentarianism –
the quality of life.”

This conference will rely on the results of the previous summits and
preserve the same world outlook, which is “constitutional Russia” (as
well as its roots, its sources, and its contradictory present and
strategically undefined future). Meanwhile, this year’s summit will
serve as an opportunity to concentrate attention on the fundamental
problem of stability of the constitutional process in the Russia of
2014, as well as on the conceptualization of challenges and threats to
Russian society.

It is expected that the December 17
conference will include an accountable and engaged dialogue in search
of a consensual platform for present and future Russia. We take as a
conceptual fundamental criterion the titular formula of the conference:
“Russia in peace – PEACE as in the fundamental life value, as in the
constitutional goal of peacekeeping, and as in a global world order
based on principles of mutual responsibility and on a dialogue of ideas,
people, generations, nations, and states.”